This book from Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers is an English medium (अंग्रेज़ी माध्यम) title by K.S. Narayan Reddy, revised in this edition by Dr. Manu Johns Chowallur, covering forensic medicine and toxicology (न्यायालयिक चिकित्सा एवं विष विज्ञान). Its standing needs little argument: reaching a 31st edition places it among the longest-running medical textbooks in India, and Reddy's name has been the default recommendation in forensic medicine for generations of MBBS students.
The word Synopsis in the title is the key to what this book is. It is the condensed companion to Reddy's fuller work, The Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology — the same subject compressed into a form a student can work through in the weeks before a professional examination, keeping the definitions, classifications and legal sections that carry marks while stripping the elaboration. That makes it a revision volume rather than a first-reading textbook, and it is used that way: students learn from a full text and revise from the Synopsis.
This 31st edition is prepared as per the revised Competency-Based Medical Education Curriculum of the NMC and, critically, includes the latest criminal laws — BNS, BNSS and BSA. That update matters more in this subject than in any other, since the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam replaced the Indian Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and the Indian Evidence Act, and the legal sections in forensic medicine are directly examinable. The edition also carries a scratch code for the Dr. Wise AI chatbot and DigiNerve access. The whole book is written in English in the Roman script.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script)
By K.S. Narayan Reddy, revised by Dr. Manu Johns Chowallur
Published by Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
31st edition — among the longest-running medical textbooks in India
A condensed synopsis for revision, not a first-reading textbook
The companion volume to Reddy's The Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
As per the revised CBME curriculum of the NMC
Includes the latest criminal laws — BNS, BNSS and BSA
Retains the definitions, classifications and legal sections that carry marks
Compact enough to revise from in the final weeks before an examination
The most widely recognised name in Indian forensic medicine teaching
Includes scratch-code access to the Dr. Wise AI chatbot
DigiNerve access with video lectures, notes and self-assessment
Suitable for MBBS third professional part I revision
Also used for postgraduate entrance revision in the subject
जेपी ब्रदर्स मेडिकल पब्लिशर्स द्वारा प्रकाशित 'KS Narayan Reddy's The Synopsis of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology' का यह 31वाँ संस्करण डॉ. मनु जॉन्स चोवल्लूर द्वारा संशोधित किया गया है। 31वें संस्करण तक पहुँचना इस पुस्तक को भारत की सबसे दीर्घकालिक चिकित्सा पाठ्यपुस्तकों में स्थान दिलाता है — रेड्डी का नाम पीढ़ियों से MBBS विद्यार्थियों के बीच इस विषय की पहली संस्तुति रहा है। शीर्षक में 'Synopsis' शब्द ही इसका स्वरूप स्पष्ट कर देता है: यह रेड्डी की विस्तृत पुस्तक 'The Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology' का संक्षिप्त सहयोगी संस्करण है, जिसमें परिभाषाएँ, वर्गीकरण तथा अंक दिलाने वाले विधिक प्रावधान सुरक्षित रखते हुए विस्तार को कम कर दिया गया है। अतः यह प्रथम अध्ययन की पाठ्यपुस्तक नहीं, बल्कि परीक्षा से पूर्व दोहराने की पुस्तक है। यह संस्करण NMC के संशोधित CBME पाठ्यक्रम के अनुसार है और इसमें नवीनतम आपराधिक क़ानून — BNS, BNSS तथा BSA — सम्मिलित हैं, जो इस विषय में विशेष रूप से महत्त्वपूर्ण है क्योंकि विधिक धाराएँ सीधे परीक्षा में पूछी जाती हैं। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है, हिन्दी में नहीं।
